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Help Riot improve matchmaking! Looking for examples of bad matchmaking

Hi everyone, I am investigating several potential upgrades for the matchmaking systems and am interested in collecting some feedback from you  the players! If you have played a game you felt you had no chance of winning, or a game where you felt a player or two was too high or too low skill for the game, help me improve the matchmaking!

4) Were you queuing with a friend?
a. If yes, how many friends? (1, 2, 3, 4?)
b. If yes, and ranked, what were you and your friends Elo(s)?
c. If yes, and normal mode or normal draft, what was the Level and win/loss of you and your friends?

I think as soon as you hit level 30 you should only play with level 30s and basically start with a new normal elo for level 30s only
And that elo can progress based on your skills compared to being new to the game etc.

I remember quite often I played against level 30s that would stomp newbies when I was around 10-20

edit: and considering that you are always improving up to a point and the meta is always changing your true elo will also be always changing

You shouldn't lose elo when you have a leaver or a person who is afk in your team. I understand your main argument against this - players starting to harras their team mates to make someone leave in order to save their elo - but this shouldnt be a reason to make all players in a team suffer. Make the Tribunal punish players with negative ingame behaviour even harder so that people won't even try that.

Wish I could send you my last match, that team worked completely in sync, as if they where all talking to each other through voice, we got absolutely stomped, and they where also particularly nice about it, saying "easy", "noobs", made for a great game.

You shouldn't lose elo when you have a leaver or a person who is afk in your team. I understand your main argument against this - players starting to harras their team mates to make someone leave in order to save their elo - but this shouldnt be a reason to make all players in a team suffer. Make the Tribunal punish players with negative ingame behaviour even harder so that people won't even try that.

We are discussing potentially harsher punishments for players who leave games intentionally, and perhaps even harsher punishments for players who leave Ranked matches.